Cognition Improves After Supplemented Mediterranean Diet, Finds a Rare Trial

Do you really think this is enough for your hospital to hire a nutritionist to create a diet protocol for stroke survivors? I'm betting 30 years unless that great stroke association president starts calling up every single stroke hospital and starts asking why they haven't changed a single stroke intervention in the last 20 years.  If your stroke association is not doing that you need to replace the board of directors.
http://www.biosciencetechnology.com/articles/2015/05/cognition-improves-after-supplemented-mediterranean-diet-finds-rare-trial?
Cognition improves in older people who eat a plant-based Mediterranean diet with antioxidant-rich extra virgin olive oil or mixed nuts, according to rare clinical trial research published by JAMA Internal Medicine.
“This is a significant pioneering study,” Nikolaos Scarmeas, M.D., M.Sc., Ph.D., told Bioscience Technology. Scarmeas, a Columbia University Associate Professor of Neurology, was not involved with the work. “There are a lot of observational studies suggesting association between a Mediterranean-type diet and a series of medical conditions and diseases. But there are few experimental interventional studies, i.e. clinical trials, securing and providing high level of evidence for such an association. This is in particular for neurological diseases. The parent study of the current one, the PREDIMED, very convincingly demonstrated a protection of a Mediterranean-type diet particularly for stroke. This small sub-study suggests a protective effect for cognitive decline too.”
Said senior author Emilio Ros, M.D., Ph.D., of the Institut d'Investigacions Biomediques August Pi Sunyer, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona: “The major surprise was the great power of foods and dietary patterns to beneficially influence health.”

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